T-BOLTS FALL TO 0-3

The Thunderbolts are off to their worst start in franchise history, losing to Black&tan 115 - 96. The loss drops them to 0 - 3 on the season. While every team in the PETA League West got to take a bite out of the Bolts, they do come away with their second 90 plus point game, which was good enough to beat most teams in the league. Quarterback Philip Rivers continues to fill the injured Tom Brady's shoes, putting up 26 fantasy points. Meanwhile, the wide receiver group continues to disappoint. The much anticipated return of star Wide receiver Steve Smith from suspension fizzled with a seven point performance. "He still needs to get into the flow of things" commented team owner Bryan Vinson.

The Thunderbolts will take part in the "battle of the defeated" next week against non divisional opponents "Bayern Die Roten" who also sport a 0-3 record. The bolts hope to pick up their first win of the season and begin the process of scratching and clawing their way back into the play-off picture.

PETA League
West Division
1. Old School MIA (3-0) 0 GB (331 fantasy points)
2. Black&Tan (2- 1) 1 GB (323 fantasy points)
3. Dorks (1-2) 2 GB (241 fantasy points)
4. Thunderbolts (0-3) 3 GB (236 fantasy points)

BOLTS FALL SHORT OF DORKS

The Thunderbolts dropped their second game of the season, losing to the "Dorks" 105 - 95. Despite the loss, the team did outshine their opening game where they scored a dismal 45 fantasy points. Philip Rivers had fans saying "Tom Brady who?" after earning 33 fantasy points on three touchdown strikes. The team also got a big boost of 25 fantasy points from the Green Bay Packers defense and special teams.

Next week, the Thunderbolts (0-2) wrap up the first round of division games with "Black&tan" (1-1). The team hopes to benefit from the return of star wide receiver, Steve Smith, from a two game suspension. He could bring another average 10 to 15 points per game.

Standings

PETA League
West Division
1. Old School MIA (2-0) 0 GB (215 fantasy points)
2. Black&Tan (1- 1) 1 GB (208 fantasy points)
3. Dorks (1-1) 1 GB (171 fantasy points)
4. Thunderbolts (0-2) 2 GB (140 fantasy points)

THUNDERBOLTS LOSE BRADY (and game)

The Thunderbolts lost the first contest of the season 76 - 45. No one cares. The final score has been buried by the devestating news that Tom Brady has been lost for the season due to severe knee injury. Brady went down early in the game after just turning in just three fantasy points. It's the second time that the Thunderbolts have lost their second overall first round draft pick to an early season injury. In the franchises first year, they lost running back Shaun Alexander to a broken foot in the second game of the season. "I'm beginning to think being our first round draft pick is worse than the Madden curse." Commented team owner, Bryan Vinson.

On the bright side, the T-bolts have Philip Rivers to take over the quarterback position. Rivers scored 26 points in week one, but was on the bench. It remains to be seen if Philips can soften the blow of losing such a high value player in Brady.

Heading into week two the Thunderbolts take on the "dorks". They'll be without Brady. Star wide reciever Steve Smith will be serving the second of a two game supsension, and they'll have to figure out what to do with a highly ranked Viking defense and special teams that scored all of one fantasy point in week 0ne. "I think our chances look pretty good." Vinson stated.

Standings

PETA League
West Division
1. Black&Tan (1- 0) 0 GB (95 fantasy points)
2. Old School MIA (1-0) 0 GB (76 fantasy points)
3. Dorks (0-1) 1 GB (66 fantasy points)
4. Thunderbolts (0-1) 1 GB (45 fantasy points)

Danny- Ragging as usual

Danny has been ragging on me for my lack of posting on the Bryan Central. Don't believe me? Check out this quote from a comment that Danny left in my previous post about the Thunderbolts.

"OMG! Bryan posted something!!"

Now, I tend to post when I feel I have something witty or interesting to relate to my faithfull readers. Danny on the other hand has a different style. He usually post a photo, and then gives a brief discription of the photo underneath. For instance he'll post a photo of his mini van, and then underneath write something like ..."here's a picture of my mini-van. It is maroon." This method, though not as witty, lends itself to more frequent postings and gives readers a better idea of what is going on in his life.

Trying to be witty and clever in a blog does have it's disadvantages. Take my blog on taking a picture of a ghost. It seemed interesting at the time, but now it just seems stupid. AND it doesn't give the readers any sense of what's going on in my life. AND you would think with such a long amount of time between postings I could have come up with something more clever.

My sisters blog on the other hand, puts us both to shame. It updates frequently, displays an array of pictures and a discriptive and interesting account of what is going on at the time, which usaully relates to her life. Of course she is getting married, and planning a wedding which gives her plenty of material to draw from.


Here is a picture of Danny and Alyssa. They are playing in water.

Thunderbolts Return

The Thunderbolts are preparing to kick off the 2008 Fantasy Football season next week, playing in the PETA-Bully Breed Chapter League (Spokesman, Michael Vick). The team re-signed Tom Brady with the second overall pick in the draft. Brady led the Thunderbolts to an amazing 12 - 2 record last season, which was punctuated with a disappointing first round play-off loss. Also returning from last season is tight end Jason Whitten, and wide reciever Joey Galloway.

Also this year, the Thunderbolts have lifted the ban on Carolina Panther players, welcoming Steve Smith (WR) and DeAngelo Willaims (RB) into the fold. Smith, however, will miss the first two games of the season due to a suspension.

The T-bolts picked up the top ranked defense going into the season. The Minnisota Vikings defense and special teams will hopefully be the anchor the team is looking for throughout the year.

"We've got the leagues top quarterback, tight end, and defense. We've got a good showing in the running back and wide reciever department. I think this team could go some place." Commented T-Bolt owner, Bryan Vinson, now in his third season running the team. The Thunderbolts open with division play against "Old School MIA" this Sunday.

Spooky

I was at the mall and discovered that a few stores are starting to put up Halloween decorations and products. This can only mean that the spookiest time of the year is almost upon us. Don't believe me? Check out this picture above that I took the other day during a paranormal investigation of an old mansion rumored to be haunted. It's a ghost. You can tell because he is transparent and lacking color. Also, he is dressed in old style clothing from a long ago era. You never see ghost wearing nikes. "Look, it's a ghost in a Florida Marlins baseball hat!" No, it's always old, gothic, or just some black or white sheet. Anyway, this ghost was not visible when I took this picture, nor was there any music. I was just taking a random picture for the fun of it during my ghost investigation of this mansion. However, ghostly organ music did pop up when I played back the tape I was recording at the time. Electronic voice phenom.

I expect these kind of results to happen with greater frequency as October 31 approaches. Remember, the 31 backwards reads 13.

Robbie is gearing up for Halloween and getting candy. He has decided to dress as a wasp for Halloween. I keep telling him good luck finding a wasp costume. He told me I'm going to dress up as a praying mantis, Mommy is going to be a bee, and grandpa is going to dress up as a beetle. he is a little obsessed with bugs at the moment. At least a wasp is better then his first costume choice. A cockroach.

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